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Andrew Siañez-De La O

@mexicancryptid.bsky.social

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Writer-Designer @ ZeniMax Online Studios | Award-winning Stage and Audio Dramatist | Fighting every day to put dinosaurs in Elder Scrolls They/He, Mex-American 🇲🇽

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · Jan 22

New milestone?? Cosplay of a character I wrote??? Check out hiddenmistake_ (on Insta) and their amazing Tanlorin cosplay!

Cosplay of the ESO companion Tanlorin from cosplayer hiddenmistake_ on Instagram. They are wearing dark leather armor, long elf ears, purple contacts, and blond hair with purple streaks. They have a foot propped up on a short brick wall and stand in front of an old stone building with a forest on the background.

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 1d

you're so right! I signed my partner up too, does that count?? lol

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 1d

need to remember this when I get my vaccines later this week. micro dosing viruses in the name of Peryite.

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Lady Nerevar @ladynerevar.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a YouTube link right to it: youtu.be/u2rwJ2fBJ9w?...

Dev To Dev Podcast @devtodevpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

Dev to Dev S01 E06 with Leamon Tuttle is live now on all good Podcast platforms and on video on Patreon. Explore Leamon's journey into the fascinating role of Lore Master!
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#DevToDevPodcast #DevToDev #GameDev #gamedeveloper #Videogames #Narrative #narrativedesign

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 2d

Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · Jul 8

It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.

A scene from the High Heresy cinematic in Destiny 2: Heresy (2025)

A scene from the Safiyah cinematic from Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted (2022)

A scene from the final mission in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

A cutscene featuring the Outsider from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 4d

immediately snagged that denji/makima print, I'm obsessed

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 5d

Elder Scrolls lore : look at the tower sideway to see the only name of god which is I
Also Elder scrolls lore : it's a slug+toad lets call it sload

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 6d

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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dogyard @dogyardmag.com · 8d

Come read #dogyard! Our FIRST creative piece! @kattysouza.bsky.social is a delight and we were so grateful for her work and we hope you love it as much as we did. She's a DOG FOR LIFE!

#litmag #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #art #reading #writing #author #writer #online #interview

Poster that has a painting of a tattooed body submerged underwater, the head just poking out. The words say “Creative Debut, Read Katherine Souza’s piece in dogyard mag!” “There’s a lump in your throat. It’s wriggling. You say you don’t know why this happens when I touch your sternum. But I see the lump for what it is: a bird you swallowed to keep the chirping muffled in a corporeal tomb…”

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Blue Sky Rob- Looking For Work! 🏳️‍⚧️ @senorwoberto.bsky.social · 9d

Signalis is one of the best survival horror games you can play right now, it’s like Silent Hill 2 but in the future and you’re a lesbian robot. Absolutely killer game

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 9d

24. Signalis

Oh yeah, let's end this thread on a high note! Signalis is one of the best horror games of all time, the vibes are off the charts, it's music is incredible, the story and characters are gonna haunt you long after you've stopped playing, it is beautiful and brilliant, play Signalis!

Save 30% on SIGNALIS on Steam

A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government f...

store.steampowered.com

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Boris Face/Off @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 12d

a semiotics major could write a whole PhD thesis on this thing. images divorced from their sources or any inherent meaning, presented in a stew, artificially aged, to invoke the hint of a scent of a feeling of something bsky.app/profile/airb...

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 12d

The Department of Homeland Security using clips from Twin Peaks in their cringe and racist anti immigration edits….

Life after all criminal aliens are deported

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 12d

I’m already obsessed with her.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 19d

They installed the loudest fan in the world at the foot of my bed. On his way out he said, ”someone will be back today, probably. Good bye.”

Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · 19d

When maintenance said they would send someone to check our carpet’s water damage, I did not imagine that someone would arrive at 1am.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 27d

ever since microsoft's layoffs in early july, the two zenimax unions have been fighting for impacted employees following the cancellation of the elder scrolls online studio's unannounced mmo. they've won laid-off workers more time (aka more pay), better severance, recall rights, and saved some jobs

"We were able to extend out [laid-off workers] impacted period, because their timers didn't even start until we signed the memorandum of understanding [about the layoffs],” Alyssa Gobelle, senior motion graphics artist and Zenimax Online Studios union bargaining committee member, told Aftermath. “Even their 60 days of continued employment and pending termination notices didn't happen until that ink was signed. So instead of starting July 2, that started mid-August, so that essentially bought them a lot more weeks of pay and healthcare security while we figured this out. That's sort of a soft win in a way, because obviously [it's] not in the contract, but it was an impact of us being able to bargain. We were able to buy them more time."

As a result, ZOS union members who lost their jobs in July technically remain employed until October. The ZOS union also squeezed an additional four weeks minimum severance out of Microsoft, bringing the total up to eight weeks across the board. On top of all that, the union also secured 18 months of recall rights for everyone on the canceled Zenimax MMO that lost their jobs, meaning that if there’s a relevant job opening at Zenimax Online Studios, there’s now a chance that workers who’ve been let go will get their old jobs back – as opposed to the company throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

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uesp.net @uesp.net · 28d

After countless requests, ESO will finally add the ability to be hugged by Pahmar-raht Khajiit in an upcoming update.

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Lonnie Garcia 🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social · 28d

I extended Mahmouds raffle, as he needs 1.4k more to reach his goal, and I added a new tier! Please help my friend evacuate Gaza. 🙏♥️ Info in the posts below. (1/2🧵)

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 29d

Say it with me now: One Piece is political!

Throughout their journey, the crew has confronted:

Institutional abuse perpetuated by the Marines, AKA the world’s in-universe cops
Fake news and propaganda used to discourage political revolutionaries and scholars from attempting to learn from the past
War crimes and systemic violence to force people to conform to the government’s rule lest they be on the receiving end of Buster Call, AKA a nuke.
Slavery, racism, and genocide, especially in arcs like Fishman Island and Water Seven
Religious authoritarianism

One Piece may wear the visage of a goofy pirate adventure for kids, but beneath the slapstick and camaraderie lies a sprawling, serialized rebellion against injustice. It’s a series where found family becomes a lifeline, where fans can see themselves reflected in its queer revolutionary heroes who laugh in the face of tyranny, punch fascists in the face, and shoot down the flags of oppressors with unflinching resolve.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 15

“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · Sep 14

Pledged! Zero Hesitation!

Infinite Citadel ➡️ PaxU @infinite-citadel.com · Sep 14

A mortal seeks a wish... the Old God is amused.

The Before the Bog God #ttrpg Kickstarter is live! Get your copy (or two!) of our incredible Duet Ritual TTRPG. The brain child of @andrewbeauman.com, with the help of food poisoning and @krasiph.bsky.social, will change your game nights...

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Coming soon: Before the Bog God

A Duet Ritual TTRPG of Cosmic Bargains. A mortal seeks a wish... the old god is amused.

www.kickstarter.com

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Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social · Sep 12

That Pokémon game might be the closest thing I get to a Viva Pinata 3 lol.

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · Sep 12

Hope beyond hope at 12:30am

Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · Sep 12

Viva Piñata port

MinnMax @minnmax.com · Sep 12

Final predictions for the Nintendo Direct?

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Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social · Sep 8

I never leave my apartment without documentation. Been doing this for years now. Writing's been on the wall.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 8

Justice Sotomayor, not mincing words, also says that today's decision will lead to the "creation of [] a second-class citizenship status" for Latinos, who now will have the burden to "carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely."

The concurrence relegates the interests of U. S. citizens
and individuals with legal status to a single sentence, positing that the Government will free these individuals as
soon as they show they are legally in the United States.
Ante, at 8 (opinion of KAVANAUGH, J.). That blinks reality.
Two plaintiffs in this very case tried to explain that they
are U. S. citizens; one was then pushed against a fence with
his arms twisted behind his back, and the other was taken away from his job to a warehouse for further questioning. More fundamentally, it is the Government’s burden to prove that it has reasonable suspicion to stop someone. The concurrence improperly shifts the burden onto an entire class of citizens to carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely. The Constitution does not permit the creation of such a second-class citizenship status.

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ratchel @ferret5557.bsky.social · Sep 7

THEY'RE CALLED MECHA, COOP. REAL WACKADOO STUFF THE BOYS BACK AT LANGLEY HAVE BEEN COOKING UP. ENORMOUS ROBOT BODIES THAT'LL WIN THE NEXT TEN WARS. BUT HERES THE KICKER: THEY CAN ONLY BE DRIVEN BY MALNOURISHED TEENAGE LESBIANS. TRANSGENDERS TOO IF THEY'RE MALNOURISHED ENOUGH.

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